He also moved the firm's headquarters from Eindhoven, Philips's birthplace and the home of its main research laboratory, to Amsterdam, as a signal that the firm's sights were set on the market place and not the oscilloscope.
No doubt Mr Kleisterlee intends to move away from what remains of Philips's conglomerate culture.
Mr Kleisterlee would earn a cheer from investors if he decided to tackle Philips's loss-making mobile-phone arm.
TBS's main motive is to find out more both about European consumers and about the digital communications hardware that is Philips's stock-in-trade.
Philips's share price has been bouncy, too, since Mr Boonstra took over.
Once members of Philips's new money-purchase pension plan turn 50, their trustees switch their funds gradually into a combination of cash and derivatives.
Andrea Ragnetti, Philips's new marketing boss, thinks it can be done.
These have become the biggest single contributor to Philips's earnings.
If Europe's Philips brand is right, those lamps could soon be history.
Prior to Friedman's Philips Curve research, generally accepted wisdom held that an economy could essentially choose how to trade off inflation with unemployment.
When Sehat was 12, he taught himself analog signal processing by taking apart his family's Philips six-transistor radio and rebuilding it one component at a time.
It forms part of a wider Philips Design's Microbial Home project which imagines an "integrated cyclical ecosystem" in the home where traditional waste is recycled to address sustainability issues.
Big investors include television makers such as Japan's Matsushita, Philips, a Dutch electrical group, and car-parts makers such as Germany's Bosch.
In June 1975 Houghton turned around and sold Signetics to U.S. Philips Trust--an affiliate of N.
Philips says there's huge biometric potential for use by homeland security types to identify people or to replace credit cards, since no two vein structures are alike.
Throughout the journey, Mrs Duggan has been supported by husband Jason, 42, whose role was recently recognised when he won The Tommy's and Philips Avent Angel Award, which celebrates someone who has been supportive through a parenting or pregnancy-related problem.
It's right around the midway point between last CES and the one to come, and for Philips, that means it's time to dump a few new HDTVs onto the unsuspecting public.
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For what it's worth, Philips is also re-introducing its Profile 1.1-compliant BDP7200 Blu-ray player, which has already been reviewed and brushed aside in anticipation of fresher Profile 2.0 decks.
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But here's the thing: it's been ten years since TiVo first introduced the Philips-built HDR110 at NAB, and while the company's name has since become synonymous with time-shifted digital video recording, it's not because its products have achieved runaway success.
ViaVideo's engineers used two Philips TM-1000 digital signal processors capable of handling, between them, 6 billion operations a second -- the equivalent of seven Intel Pentium II microprocessors found in top-of-the-line PCs.
Philips, recruited in the U.S. by Tablighi Jamaat, went to school in Saudi Arabia, was made a proselytization official by the Saudi Air Force.
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These include some of the world's leading companies, such as BMW, Lloyds, Nestle, Philips and Shell, as well as US government departments and the UK's Parliament.
Today's agreement does not impact any of Funai's existing brand licensing agreements with Philips.
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In the Philips wing for instance, Gerrit Berckheyde's "The 'Golden Bend' in the Herengracht" (1671-72), a shimmering, timeless image of one of Amsterdam's principal canals and a recent acquisition, was tastelessly used as a prop in a didactic display on the history of Dutch urban development.
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Taking Philips to a new frontier is Mr Kleisterlee's toughest challenge to date.
But to everyone's surprise last year, Sony and Philips unveiled a single-sided DVD with a capacity of 3.7 gigabytes, more than five times that of a music CD.
New York's venerable Le Cirque, owned by the Maccioni family, which has eight restaurants in New York, Las Vegas, Dominican Republic and New Delhi, did a pop-up late last summer, produced by Mr. Philips, in a hotel on the city's Lower East Side.
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